| Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock Contributor(s): Cohen, Tom (Author), Cascardi, Anthony (Editor), Macksey, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521465842 ISBN-13: 9780521465847 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of representational criticism and cultural studies, the role of close reading has been overlooked. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 401 |
| LCCN: 93043559 |
| Series: Literature, Culture, Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.41" W x 8.43" (0.78 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understanding of major texts. Tom Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked. Through astonishing new readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman, and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the materiality of language challenges representational models of meaning imposed by the canon. |